2.22.2015

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Hollywood's diversity problem beyond 'Selma': Asian, Latino stories are missing: "The Oscar nominees this year and most years, and the movie industry they represent, fall woefully short when it comes to mirroring American society and, increasingly, the moviegoing audience. And that's especially true when it comes to the fastest-growing racial group in the nation, Asians, and the largest minority group, Latinos."

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The day Japanese Americans lost their rights: Thursday marked the 73rd anniversary of the day Franklin Delano Roosvelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcibly removing Japanese Americans from their homes and into concentration camps. Esther Toshiko Hirabayashi Furugori remembers camp life, and her brother, Gordon Hirabayashi, who questioned the constitutionality of the order and took his case to the Supreme Court.

Fresh Off the Boat Proves You Can Be Responsible About Sexual Assault and Still Be Funny: "While it's played for laughs due to Wu's intensity... we still have a mother teaching her son not to pressure girls into being physical with him. That's pretty revolutionary, given that most of the time in American society we spend more of our efforts, indirectly or otherwise, on instructing girls how to protect themselves from rape then we do actually explaining to boys what behavior is or isn't okay."

MC Jin's Second Chance: Over a decade ago, MC Jin was signed to Ruff Ryders -- the first Chinese American rapper to approach mainstream success, only to vanish from the scene as quickly as he arrived. Now, after becoming an unlikely star in Hong Kong and overcoming stereotypes he helped promote, he's attempting a comeback. But is anyone listening?

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Will The Next 'MacGyver' Be An Indian Woman? The creator of the original MacGyver TV series has teamed up with the National Academy of Engineering and top Hollywood producers to launch a crowdsourcing competition for fans to design the new show and write the pilot script. There's just one requirement: The new MacGyver has to be a woman.

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Women are leaving the tech industry in droves: "Plenty of programs now encourage girls and minorities to embrace technology at a young age. But amid all the publicity for those efforts, one truth is little discussed: Qualified women are leaving the tech industry in droves."

A Dumpling Crawl of LA's San Gabriel Valley: "The San Gabriel Valley ('The 626' if you're under thirty, 'The Chinese Beverly Hills' if you're over forty) is ideal ground for a dumpling crawl. The cities that sprawl eastward from downtown L.A. along the 10 freeway -- Alhambra, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Arcadia -- are all dumpling rich." Here's a handy map of deliciousness!